---
name: "Graham Wagner"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/graham-wagner"
fi1m_id: "graham-wagner"
imdb_id: "nm1635415"
tmdb_id: 1807680
roles: ["Writer","Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-17T15:29:37.272775+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Graham Wagner

## Identity

Graham Wagner

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/graham-wagner
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** graham-wagner
- **IMDb ID:** nm1635415
- **TMDB ID:** 1807680
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1635415/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1807680

Writer and producer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Producer
- **Active:** 2005–present
- **Also known as:** グラハム・ワグナー
- **Frequently works with:** [Carrie Kemper](https://film.one/person/carrie-kemper.md), [Carson D. Mell](https://film.one/person/carson-d-mell.md), [Eric Appel](https://film.one/person/eric-appel.md), [Owen Ellickson](https://film.one/person/owen-ellickson.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 77 (1), 2010s 82 (1), 2020s 80 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 80 to 77 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 2, Action & Adventure 1, Drama 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1635415/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1807680

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Silicon Valley*](https://film.one/tv/silicon-valley.md) (82)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Fallout*](https://film.one/tv/fallout.md) (80)
- **Peacock:** [*The Office*](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md) (77)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Graham Wagner

> Graham Wagner brings a comedy writer’s interest in human behaviour to *Fallout*’s grotesque wasteland. His work with Geneva Robertson-Dworet makes for funny, carefully made television, though the wandering plot sometimes needs firmer handling.

Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins make the grotesque wasteland of *Fallout* (2024) worth spending time in. We enjoyed their company enough to resent the detours that took us away from them. Even with that reservation, this is funny, carefully made television, and a persuasive reason to take an interest in Wagner’s writing. It is a promising move into genre storytelling for someone whose earlier credits are concentrated in television comedy.

Before that came writing and producing on *The Office* (2005), whose staff he joined in 2012. Steve Carell’s painfully needy boss accounts for much of our affection for that programme, so its pleasures cannot simply be credited to one member of the writing team. Wagner’s work there included refining jokes and delivery with actors on set. He also wrote and produced for *Portlandia* between 2014 and 2018, and for *Silicon Valley* in 2017.

On *Fallout*, he shares the larger responsibility of co-creator and co-showrunner with Geneva Robertson-Dworet. Their satire centres on human behaviour and factions rather than broad jokes, carrying his comedy background into a post-apocalyptic setting. Their writing process moves between the two of them as they refine the tone. The humour works well enough for us to welcome the change of setting; there is more here than the novelty of a comedy writer tackling genre material.

The storytelling needs firmer handling. *Fallout* repeatedly transfers our attention between three strands without developing the people in each evenly enough to make every switch welcome. Ali Comperchio and Yoni Reiss are among the editors keeping those strands intelligible, but the cutting cannot make every detour necessary. The writing supplies mysteries to follow while sometimes neglecting the urgency of what is happening now. Start with *Fallout*, and allow its cast a little more patience than its plotting deserves.

## Biography

Graham Wagner is a writer and producer. He has written episodes of the comedy series *Portlandia* (2011–2018), *Silicon Valley* (2014–2018), *Baskets* (2016–2017) and *The Office* (US version, 2005). His other credits include *Star Trek: Short Treks* (2018) and earlier work on *The Life & Times of Tim* (2008).

Wagner is co-creator and showrunner, alongside Geneva Robertson-Dworet, of the Prime Video series *Fallout* (2024), adapted from the video game franchise. He has received numerous Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including for Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for *Fallout*.

*Sources: imdb.com, tvmaze.com, fallout.wiki, creativescreenwriting.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Fallout* (2024), Fi1m 80, Writer, Creator, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/fallout.md)
- *Silicon Valley* (2014), Fi1m 82, Writer, Co-Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/silicon-valley.md)
- *The Office* (2005), Fi1m 77, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Fallout* (2024), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/fallout.md)
- *Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein* (2019), as Graham
- *Star Trek: Short Treks* (2018), series, Writer
- *Baskets* (2016), series, Writer
- *Silicon Valley* (2014), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/silicon-valley.md)
- *Portlandia* (2011), series, Co-Executive Producer, Executive Producer, Writer, Director
- *The Life & Times of Tim* (2008), series, Writer, Supervising Producer
- *The Office* (2005), series, as Wedding Guest (uncredited) · Writer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md)

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